The Dark Web Forum Portal: From Multi-lingual to Video
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Authors
Huang, Chung-Neng
Chen, Hsinchun
Denning, Dorothy
Roberts, Nancy C.
Larson, Catherine
Yu, Ximing
Subjects
Counter-terrorism
Social media
Videos
Text-mining
Web-mining
Social media
Videos
Text-mining
Web-mining
Advisors
Date of Issue
2011
Date
2011
Publisher
Language
Abstract
Counter-terrorism, intelligence analysts, and other
investigators continue to analyze the Internet presence of
terrorists, hate groups, and other extremists through the study of
primary sources including terrorists’ own websites, videos, chat
sites, and Internet forums. Forums and videos are both
particularly rich sources of information. Forums -- discussion
sites supporting online conversations -- capture each conversation
in a “thread” and the ensuing postings are usually time-stamped
and attributable to a particular online poster (author). With
careful analysis, they can reveal trends in topics and discussions,
the sequencing of ideas, and the relationships between posters.
Videos gain a global audience when posted to YouTube, but
identifying and finding videos relating to a specific interest or
topic can be difficult among the tens of millions of available
items. The Dark Web Forum Portal was originally constructed
to allow the examination, from a broad perspective, of the use of
Web forums by terrorist and extremist groups. The Video Portal
module has been added to facilitate the study of video as it is used
by these groups. Both portals are available to researchers on a
request basis. In this paper, we examine the evolution of the Dark
Web Forum Portal’s system design, share the results of a user
evaluation, and provide an overview of the development of the
new video portal.
Type
Article
Description
Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2011).
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Department
Defense Analysis (DA)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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NPS Report Number
Sponsors
National Science Foundation
Counterterrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP)
DTRA
Counterterrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP)
DTRA
Funder
Contract no. N00104-10-C-Q381 (CTFP)
Grant numbers CNS-0709338 and CBET-0730908 (NSF)
Award No. HDTRA1-09-0-0058 (DTRA)
Grant numbers CNS-0709338 and CBET-0730908 (NSF)
Award No. HDTRA1-09-0-0058 (DTRA)
Format
Citation
Chen, H., Denning, D., Roberts, N., Larson, C., Yu, X., and Huang, C., “The Dark Web Forum Portal: From Multi-lingual to Video,” Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2011), 9 p. .
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.